History

In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about death in China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this period, those who died violently or under...

Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history...

Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys...

This book, based on wide-ranging research on water, views the world through the rippling, complex lens of water. It looks at the emergence of civilizations and their decay, delves into creation myths, ponders the place of water in the human psyche as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486457437Author Gardner Dexter HiscoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior-that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. The original Latin edition, completed in 1665, was the largest and most expensive book to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544672Author Eric MonteiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is just one of many areas where exponential advances in technology signal both hope and fear, leading to public controversy...

Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062845900Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 590g

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743299558Author James BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War?First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an...

Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism.The invention of the personal computer liberated users from...

In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her...

At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the...

A tribute to one of the top fighter aces of the World War II, this new full length biography appears here in its first edition. Marseilles' wartime exploits are legendary with the 158 aerial victories, including 17 in one day. He was, and still is,...

American Genesis is the book that helped earn Thomas Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, the book tells the sweeping story of America's technological revolution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190233105Author Professor of History Kate BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University...

This classic photo volume on the North African campaign is a gripping study of one of the major campaigns of the Second World War. From the point-of-view of Luftwaffe pilots and crews the reader is shown the campaign from its outset - from the initial...

This book is the most complete and up-to-date examination of the history and extinction of one of Australia's most enduring folkloric beasts - the thylacine, otherwise affectionately known as the Tasmanian tiger. Bob Paddle challenges conventional...

Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics - in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs - have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180495Author Andy GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575689Author Lee VinselFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint CurrencyPublisher Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc

Between 1100 and 1600, the emphasis on reason in the learning and intellectual life of Western Europe became more pervasive and widespread than ever before in the history of human civilization. Of crucial significance was the invention of the university...

Bishop is undoubtedly one of the most widely-known names in the soil mechanics, or geotechnical engineering, community today, alongside the `founding father', Karl Terzaghi. This is mainly due to the method Bishop devised for estimating the stability of...

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of...

This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly-minded revolt against reason and modern science, but this is not so. On the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060524463Author John Steele GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2013 Hacker Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Technology 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780262017770Author Regina Lee BlaszczykFormat...

In 1924 at Koberwitz, the estate of Count and Countess Keyserlingk, Rudolf Steiner gave a key course of lectures on agriculture. At a time when industrial methods were being introduced into farming, Steiner had a radically different, evolutionary, vision...

Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of...

Three previous volumes of this series by Colin Ronan are each available in hardback as well as paperback. Volume I introduces the reader to the country of China: its history, geography and language. The major part of this book is devoted to the history...

A riveting introduction to the complex and evolving field of geospatial intelligence. Although geospatial intelligence is a term of recent origin, its underpinnings have a long and interesting history. Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution...

An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific...

How the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut was designed and reimagined over timeIn this book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s and the ways this icon has been reinterpreted...

In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogues of them. Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262693264Author Bruce SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 140mm * 6mm

Science as Public Culture joins a growing number of studies examining science as a practical activity in specific social settings. Jan Golinski considers the development of chemistry in Britain from 1760 to 1820, and relates it to the rise and subsequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262035897Author Benoit GodinFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm